Launchings

Marine plywood and mahogany, using epoxy resins. Design inspired by Seaway Boat Company of Long Beach, CA.

In June 2011 Paul Kueffner launched a cedar-strip kayak that he built for his wife from plans by John Winters. The Caspian Sea design is 15′6″ long, andabout 50 pounds with gear. He built the hull from 1/4″ western red cedar strips, covered with epoxy and 8 oz fiberglass cloth.

Gene and Luanna Dykens of Holland, MI launched a 16' wooden canoe with a Polynesian outrigger on April 25, 2003 in Long Lake, MI. Besides paddle propulsion, the boat is also equipped with a small electric motor.

Father and son project. Our first boat build, she took us a little over a year in all, but she finally hit the water yesterday.

Paul Wagstaff's catboat was two decades in the designing and building. He was attracted to catboats because of their stability and he wanted a boat that could be built in his garage, trailered easily, and could be single-handed.

Built of cold-molded cedar on laminated locust frames by David, Marie and Nathan at Skol ar Mor. ROBUSTUS is a reproduction of Francois Vivier’s MORBIC 8′. She was ordered by Guillaume Valente on the island of Groix off the Southern coast of Brittany in France.

I built BJØRN AGAIN from plans and frame sections over 9 years of weekends and evenings.

Jonathan White of Victoria, Australia built this Acorn dinghy in just five months. It is made of 6mm marine plywood and hoop pine with five coasts of varnish all around, and another five coats inside for good measure.

Two kit boats from Chesapeake Light Craft, built from March to July, 2012. Mill Creek 16.5 and Chesapeake 17LT. Built in my shop in Points, WV, and launched at Camp Seven Lake, near Manistique, MI.

Chesapeake Light Craft Passagemaker pram dingy, the Emily E, with her namesake, builder’s daughter, on beach on Peaks Island Me at the launch ....